Chris Colfer Quotes

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

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• I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Work
  • Way
  • Talent

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • Grandma
  • Woods

• I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Beautiful
  • Thought
  • Beauty

• Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Development

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Success
  • Face
  • Conventional

• I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Daughter

• I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• I'm very open-minded.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
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• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Time
  • Place
  • Individual

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Years
  • Said
  • Being

• Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • Great
  • Mind
  • May

• I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Great
  • Why
  • Energy

• Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Time
  • World
  • Today

• I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.

  

  Jane Birkin

• The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Work
  • Business
  • Teamwork

• I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Time
  • Great
  • School